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Iraq withdrawal makes sense and leaves US alliance rock solid

Posted: 02 Jun 08 | In late February 2007 Kevin Rudd met the US Vice-President, Dick Cheney, arch neo-con of the flailing Bush Administration. Undeterred by their first meeting or Cheney's fearsome reputation, Rudd confidently explained the strategic and operational rationale behind Labor's policy to withdraw Australian combat troops from Iraq by the middle of 2008. |

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Festival of filth and wagging tongues

Posted: 27 May 08 | POLITICIANS should keep out of art. Kevin Rudd all but ruined his new-found cachet with the artistic community last week by declaring that photographer Bill Henson's work was "revolting". |

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Rudd's waffling pure pollie-speak

Posted: 26 May 08 | Kevin Rudd is brilliant at using language that either makes no sense or few people comprehend, writes Phillip Coorey. |

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Pseudo battlers should get a grip

Posted: 21 May 08 | The self-pity of the well-off will always drive me to the keyboard. And what an outpouring of it we've seen in response to Wayne Swan's praiseworthy decision to impose a $150,000 limit on eligibility for the baby bonus, family tax benefit part B and the dependent spouse tax offset. |

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They're hot up north but still only second bananas

Posted: 21 May 08 | Those on the wrong side of the Tweed say the only good thing about NSW is that it keeps Victorians out of Queensland. |

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Acting now would be a quixotic error

Posted: 20 May 08 | KEVIN RUDD'S lead over Brendan Nelson as preferred prime minister is the biggest that any party leader has enjoyed in the 36-year history of the Nielsen poll. |

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Shift from feudalism no easy leap

Posted: 19 May 08 | For almost 600 years, the monks of the Sera Monastery in Lhasa have debated each other in the same courtyard. |

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Rudd thinks election still under way

Posted: 13 May 08 | The Treasurer, Wayne Swan, talks tough. He trumpets it as a budget to "fight inflation first," yet it is a budget that actually squibs the fight. |

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Night of the wolves for Nelson

Posted: 12 May 08 | The wolves are howling in the hills. They are stalking. They are hungry. And they have identified their next victim. This is the cruel and menacing spectacle we have in Australian public life - yet again. |

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So. You're looking forward to a budget tax cut.

Posted: 07 May 08 | So. You're looking forward to a budget tax cut. I've got some disappointing news. The tax changes being talked as budget tax cuts are not actually budget measures. You won't find them in next week's budget bills. |

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Grant's watertight excuse for overhang

Posted: 07 May 08 | Grant Hackett's physical overhang, not the norm for an elite athlete, is more a result of a wardrobe malfunction rather than a diet of hamburgers and beer. |

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